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Germany

OH 1700

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. German-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, and adjunct professor of Music at Texas Woman’s University. Childhood and education in Kiel and Hamburg, Germany; family history; parents’ move to South Africa; own move to South Africa; discovery of the cello and decision to study it seriously; involvement in anti-apartheid movement; decision to move to the U.S. for graduate school; attraction of UNT Doctorate of Musical Arts program; first impressions of the U.S.

OH 0309

Retired printer. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans during World War II. Capture and interrogation, November, 1944; Stalag 12-A, Limburg, Germany; civilian hostility; Stalag 3-B, Furstenburg, 1944-45; forced March to Stalag 3-A; Luckenwalde, 1945; liberation by Russian troops.